SEARCH THROUGH VDARE.com ARCHIVES

Catholic bishops have accelerated their anti-American Open Borders crusade to fluff up their scandal-scarred morality cred in the Main Stream Media and to nudge “immigrants” (legality immaterial) to attend the church that supports ethnic separatism and disdains assimilation. Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley and several bishops celebrated a photo-op Mass near the border today (April 1) to underline their dedication to “immigrants.” These conspirators in cassocks were also scheduled to tour a local shelter and visit with the Border Patrol.

Pope Francis encourages us to go to the periphery to seek our neighbor in places of pain and darkness. We are here to discover our own identity as God’s children so that we can discover who our neighbor is, who is our brother and sister.

As a nation of immigrants we should feel a sense of identification with other immigrant groups seeking to enter our country.

The United States is a nation of immigrants. Only the indigenous Native Americans are not from somewhere else. So the word of God reminds us today that our God wants justice for the orphan and the widow and our God loves the foreigners, the aliens and reminds us that we were aliens in Egypt.

O’Malley’s Mass took place right next to the border fence, so there were photos of yearning faces behind bars (a popular theme).

Busloads of apple-cheeked kiddies from Catholic schools were brought in. Religious songs in both English and Spanish were sung. (As someone who loves religious music of all sorts, I found the music to be uninspired and boring.)

But the criminal sex behavior of pervert priests is now largely a local story—much like illegal alien crime—probably due to reporters getting tired of it, rather than any resolution being reached.

One exception: a recent intense 90-minute report from PBSFrontline: Secrets of the Vatican (February 25, 2014). (The link is to a video; there’s a transcript here). The interviews with now-grown victims of pedophile sex abuse were particularly disturbing. The documentary also painted a picture of a substantial homosexual presence within the Vatican itself:

VATICAN GUIDE: [through interpreter] A large part of the hierarchy is homosexual. Certainly, at the top levels of the church, in the Curia, and many important people, such as bishops and archbishops, are gay.

NARRATOR: He’s a Vatican guide who says he’s had relationships with several priests.

VATICAN GUIDE: [through interpreter] Here in Rome, it’s very easy to meet a gay priest, on a bus, in a church, and important churches like St. Peter’s. It’s even easier when you go to gay clubs and gay bars. You see them in the bars, and then at the altar the following Sunday.

CARMELO ABBATE, Author, Sex and the Vatican: [through interpreter] The priest went on to say, “Actually on Saturday, there will be a party here in Rome, in a club in Testaccio, with me and lots of other priests. We’ve also booked two escorts from Turin, from Piemonte, who will be the entertainers at the party. If you like, you’re invited. I’d love you to join us.”

American Catholic leaders are hoping that President Obama’s meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday will strengthen his resolve to soften U.S. policy on deportations, and that the pontiff’s call for compassion toward migrants will also bolster the prospects for immigration reform, now stalled in Congress.

Church officials have staged several high-profile events to reinforce the pope’s message. On Wednesday, a delegation led by Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez brought the young daughter of a man facing deportation to meet the pope at the Vatican….

[By Pamela Constable, March 27, 2014]

Wait, aren’t illegals supposed to be suffering in the shadows? How do they afford a trip to Europe? Picking strawberries must be better paying than we are led to think.

Maybe Mario just wasn’t that into fatherhood. But no MSM reporter apparently asked about the discrepancy. So the Vargas family reunification was all sweetness and light—a photographer’s dream, just as the bishops planned.

Theoretically, Mario could still be deported for his DUI crime. But, since he is now a celeb alien and not an axe-murderer, it’s unlikely. Criminal family values are highly regarded by the Obama administration.

Despite the Catholic hierarchy’s group swoon for immigration, actual immigration policy has real drawbacks for them. For example, it also imports Muslims, who are beginning to be troublesome.

One symptom: the recent sale of a magnificent Syracuse cathedral to a Muslim refugee group—who will turn it into a mosque. Surrealistically, the largest resettlement contractor, bringing the most Muslims, is the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Do the Bishops not understand that Muslims regard such a takeover as surrender—a battle won for Islam in the long march toward a worldwide caliphate?

The Vatican could more seriously engage itself against Islam, the millennial enemy of Christianity and Western civilization. But, sadly, the current Pope is less realistic about Islam than his predecessor, Pope Benedict. Francis claimed last year that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”